Food traditions often grow up around religious holidays. Yom Kippur, celebrated this year from sundown on Sunday, Sept. 24, until sundown on Monday, Sept. 25, is the holiest day in the Jewish religion and has food traditions at the beginning and end of the observance.
Ruth Levine of Beachwood, explains that these traditions vary depending on a person’s ethnic culture. Jews usually fall into one of four groupings -- Sephardic, Ashkenazic, Mizrahi and Ethiopian.
The Ereve Yom Kippur dinner the night before, Levine says, is serious because Yom Kippur is a somber event when people atone for their sins and ask God for forgiveness. She lists chicken soup, chopped eggs and onions, gefelte fish, roast chicken as well as a kugel or tea and honey cake as part of her tradition.
Those who don’t fast are children under 13, pregnant women and those with health issues. That fast lasts until sundown the next day. This week, fasting begins at sundown on Sunday, Sept. 24 and ends at sundown on Monday, Sept. 25.
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